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Bluesky continues to soar (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Oh great. That bridge even federates with the bitcoin bros' network (nostr)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which one is that. I guess I've been left out of the loop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe they mean Nostr? If so, describing it as "the bitcoin bros' network" is a bit misleading, since the "crypto" portion of Nostr is short for "cryptography", not "cryptocurrency".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Ah, so the kind of crypto bro, that instead of a fistbump, does a diffie-hellman key exchange instead?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, no. I literally mean the majority of the community there. All I see there is blockchain and bitcoin shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Nostr might unironically be my favourite platform, simply because it keeps those toxic morons away from the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

:D good one. My new favourite take on nostr.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I really like the Nostr protocol, though. It's too bad the network is so inundated by cryptocurrency topics.

It's simple, it has a nice extension process (standing on the shoulders of giants), and it's super easy and lightweight to self-host. It reminds me a lot of the early days of http, when it was more common (as a developer) to telnet to port 80 and just type in a couple of lines of header and get a response.

Sadly, Nostr's association with cryptocurrency, and the fact that 90% of the traffic on it is cryptocurrency created posts, has been a severe handicap.